Art Residency @ Water Garden
Chance cooper
Los Angeles based painter Chance Cooper is known for testing the morality of his audience with playful images and provocative plots. His work celebrates the sacred art of storytelling and each recurring visit to a piece suggests a new conversation, inspiring endless narratives.
Chance often guides his viewers to a fork in the road and allows them to discover their fate versus the painting. With the appearance of a fictional fantasy and personality inspired by real subjects, the skin of Chance's work is just a layer of what humans do so well of disguising - themselves.
Cooper’s artistic style was molded by the memories of his life, forgotten and not. His work is recognized as a playground where his characters perform their existential secrets. Chance often uses words and objects within his paintings to guide the viewer to a rabbit hole where they can jump in and create their own fling with the image, all while having their morality tested along the way. In many cases, each recurring visit to a piece will evoke a new dialogue within the mind of the observer, spawning endless narratives. His work celebrates the sacred art of storytelling and his paintings carry the feeling of a page torn from one’s life.
“My goal now is to create a message and story that society is afraid to acknowledge. I like to paint characters in a setting that can be interpreted in multiple directions, it all depends on wherever your moral compass leads you. Oftentimes people look at my work and the message seems straightforward, then I point out how you can read the words on the painting in a different tone and suddenly they’re on the side of the fence. I don’t often choose a political or social side in my work.”
Cooperʼs works have recently been exhibited at OA Fine Art, Carousel Fine Art, and Eastern Projects Gallery. He is based in Los Angeles, CA.
